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and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. >> i didn't even want to come home. you just felt naked and totally vulnerable, unless you were armed. like, i mean, we all carried guns. there would be a huge group of us, and everyone in the group would have a gun. >> narrator: in november 2007, four soldiers back from iraq went out drinking. >> i was a real bad alcoholic. i spent all my savings my first month back just drinking. >> narrator: they had all served together in baghdad during the surge. >> i had, like, a.... i had, like, a total mental breakdown. i lost control. >> narrator: by the next morning, one of them was dead. kevin shields had been shot three times at point blank range and left by the side of the road. two of his fellow soldiers would be convicted of conspiring to murder him. the oth
and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. >> i didn't even want to come home. you just felt naked and totally vulnerable, unless you were armed. like, i mean, we all carried guns. there would be a huge group of us, and everyone in the group would have a gun. >>...
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and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism >> it was hell on earth. >> you couldn't dream it. >> this burning horror. my mother's in that. >> how could god be in the horror of what i saw? >> what kind of god is this? >> how can you believe in such a god? >> it's nothing to do with god. >> he's gone. this emptiness. >> i saw evil all in that building. >> this is what evil looks like. >> being trapped in that building, was there any god with them? >> there is no answer. there is only anger, a lot of anger. >> religion drove those planes into those buildings. >> that people can kill for god in this way, this is the best reason never to believe in god. >> it looked like a giant syringe had sucked out this wonderful, amazing hope that we had in this country, was sucked out at ground zero. >> narrator: almost
and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism >> it was hell on earth. >> you couldn't dream it. >> this burning horror. my mother's in that. >> how could god be in the horror of what i saw? >> what kind of god is this? >> how can you believe in such a...
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and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> i'm away from my office. please leave a name, a message, and i'll get back to you. thank you. >> david. hey, buddy. it's sharif. i hope you're well. i love you man, and... >> narrator: sharif el-gamal is a manhattan property developer. >> i'm a new yorker from brooklyn. i'm not a community activist. i'm not a community leader. i'm not an islamic academic. this isn't something that i've been studying. i'm a new yorker who is a real- estate junkie, who has... you know, that's who i am. my brother, i have to be there before 1:00, so i need you to get there as quickly as possible, please. >> before 1:00? >> yeah. >> oh, my god. >> i have to do salaat at jummah. >> oh, yes, yes. >> are you muslim?
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and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> narrator: there was, after the horror of september 11, the inevitable question: did anyone in the government know? the move from chicago to headquarters in washington was a big promotion for special agent john o'neill. he drove all night from chicago and went straight to the office on a sunday morning. ( elevator bell rings ) he'd just arrived when the white house called. ( dial tone ) ( telephone dialing ) ( telephone rings ) >> it was a sunday morning. >> fbi. >> but i was in my office and i was reading intelligence, and i saw a report that indicated that the man who had plotted the world trade center bombing in '93, the ringleader, ramzi ahmed yousef, he was about to move within pakistan,
and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> narrator: there was, after the horror of september 11, the inevitable question: did anyone in the government know? the move from chicago to headquarters in washington...
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and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> good morning, america. i'm charles gibson. >> i'm diane sawyer, and it's tuesday, september 11, 2001. ( screaming ) >> just a few moments ago, something believed to be a plane crashed into the south tower of the world trade center. >> a plane has crashed into one of the towers. >> it looks almost like a mushroom cloud. >> we're trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly something relatively devastating. >> welcome back to fox news. we have a very tragic alert for you right now. >> something hit the pentagon on the outside of the fifth floor. >> a day unlike any other in the long course of american history: a terrorist act of war against this country. presiden
and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> good morning, america. i'm charles gibson. >> i'm diane sawyer, and it's tuesday, september 11, 2001. ( screaming ) >> just a few...
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and by reva and david logan, committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. additional funding for frontline's expanded broadcast season is provided by the bill & melinda gates foundation. >> smith: 6:00 a.m., october 12, 2000. fbi agent ali soufan was on his way to work. >> i remember i was on the brooklyn bridge. i was driving to the office. and i got a phone call saying to come to the office fast. >> a suicide bomb attack on a u.s. navy warship... >> a ship, a navy ship, was attacked in yemen. >> smith: soufan was only 29 at the time. how soon did you go to yemen? >> same day. >> smith: he was badly needed. how many people in the fbi spoke arabic? >> eight, nine, something like that. >> smith: how many of them were working on al qaeda? >> i don't know. i think maybe i was the only one. >> smith: soufan was made chief investigator for the uss
and by reva and david logan, committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. additional funding for frontline's expanded broadcast season is provided by the bill & melinda gates foundation. >> smith: 6:00 a.m., october 12, 2000. fbi agent ali...